October 8, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Now listen to Father Knows Best.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Transcribe sorrying Robert Young as father, welcome to spring here
(00:29):
and another half hour visit with the folks in the white.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Frame House on Maple Street.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Sit back and enjoy live for the Andersons Kathy, Bud, Betty,
Margaret and Jim.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
As the head of.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
This typical American household again sets out to prove that
father knows Best. The White Frame House on Maple Street
underwent a fairly unique change in sameel last week when
(01:01):
it's youngest member, Kathy Anderson, threw off the shackles of
girldom and became, as far as she was concerned, a boy.
All efforts to reconvert her have failed, and now the
family is beginning to accept her as saying as is
evidenced by this Saturday morning phone call like this.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I'll get it.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Hello. Who oh just a minute, Hey, Sam, it's for you.
How old Faddy?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I'm coming?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Hello?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Oh Hi, Mike, Okay, Mike be right over, Mike, Bye?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Who's this Mike?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Does he go to your school?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Heck no, he goes to the military academy. Really sure,
I'm gonna go there too. You you can't go there?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Mike gave him my name an address, and they're gonna
send me an application.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Doesn't Mike know you're a girl.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I'm not a girl anymore. And don't you ever tell
Mike I am one? Where's Mommy?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Last time I saw her? So he was in the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Hey, mommy, I'm going over to Mike's house.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
You can't go anywhere looking like that. Wait a minute,
have you been cutting your hair again?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
No, honest, I haven't.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Honest, I swear it looks shorter every time I see you.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Where's my baseball?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Black?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I see it? I see it now, Kathy? You did? Mom?
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Could you make me some lemonade? Bud?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
You're supposed to be out mowing the lawn.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Well I was, but I got worried about a blister.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Oh really, Yeah, if a blister breaks and you get
dirt in it, do you get infected?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Well, you certainly could. Let's see where it broke.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Oh it didn't break.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Oh, well, let's see the blister.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Oh I haven't got a blister yet.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Well, for goodness sake, what's all the fuss about. Then?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Well, I just thought i'd better quit while I still
had my health.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Oh, Bud, one time Claude Messner had a blister.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
I don't want to hear about it in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Now, Bud mail man, letter for the President of the PTA.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Where are your president.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
In the kitchen scrubbing the floor?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
You should get the vice president to do that? Bud?
What are you doing in here? Is this the way
you mow the lawn? Well?
Speaker 7 (03:30):
I was just telling mom about the time Claude Messner
had a blister on his foot.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I'm sorry I missed that. I'll bet it was fascinating.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Well, what happened?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I don't want to hear it. Get out there and
put a few blisters on that lawn more. Hurry, Now
I'm going, I'm going.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Where's my letter?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Oh? Here it is? Oh, oh, look at this?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
A postcard for Sam Anderson, O dear from the Ajax
Power Tool Company. She's certainly going in whole hog for
this boy business. Well, for goodness sakes, Margaret, did you
know about this? About what this letter? It's from the
Springfield Military Academy. Did Bud mention anything about this to you?
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Jim, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
It's an application from them, It says our son Master
Anderson requested it. Now, why would Bud want to go
to a military school without consulting us?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
It is strange.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You suppose something has gone wrong at school.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
He certainly hasn't mentioned it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
If it has, maybe he feels we push him too hard,
expect too much work out of him.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Oh, heaven's the little bit of work he does around here.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I'd better go out and have a talk with him,
get to the bottom of this thing.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Well, it's certainly not like Bud.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
At all, Bud.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
I'm going to start mowing right now, Dad, But.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Never mind that. Now, if you feel it's too hard
or anything like that, just let it go.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Would you repeat that?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I said let it go. The grass will keep. Let's
sit down here, Bud and have a little talk. We
haven't had a good man the man chat for quite
a while. Well, come on, sit down.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
I'll mold a lawn.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
No, I don't want you to sit down now. Listen, Bud.
The only way I can help you is for you
to tell me just what the trouble is. The trouble,
just what is this gnawing you feel inside of you? Gning? Yes,
what's causing it?
Speaker 6 (05:46):
I guess I'm just hungry.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
No, Bud, I mean, well, look, it's no good keeping
these things penned up inside of you. Get things out
in the open, makes them much simpler. Now, this inner
turmoil of yours? What's bringing it on? Well?
Speaker 7 (06:08):
The only time I notice it is right after I
eat deal pickles.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Oh look, Bud, I don't like him anyway, Jim.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Don't bother us now, Margaret, But I.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Have some important evidence to throw into this case, your honor.
If you'd bothered to read the rest of this letter,
you'd have found out it has nothing to do with Bud.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
What letter?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
It deals with our other son, Sam.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
What what are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Oh? It's an application blank from the Springfield Military Academy.
Evidently Kathy is trying to enroll there.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Kaffy's Well, I'll be switched. Bud. Where are you going
over to Joe Phillips?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
You said I didn't have to mow the lawn.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Just forget what I said and get on that law
and get on it fast.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Holy cal.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Hurry, I'm doing it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Take it around and do the front law, and that
needs it worse for this?
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Okay, Okay, why don't they make up their minds?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Drive a guy crazy?
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Well, look at you, boy, Some people sure have it, sawt.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
What are you grumbling about? Grumpy?
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Sit on the porch and swing while your brother's working
his head to the bone.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Hey, Bud, look who's that soldier coming down the street?
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Huh where? Oh, he's not a soldier. He goes to
the military academy.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Gee, he's good looking and so tall.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
That's where Kathy wants to go.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
I don't blame her. I'd like to go there myself.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Want me to go out and tackle him.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Bud, stop it and don't act like we're staring at him.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Well, hello there, Betty, Well, Hello, you live here? Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I live here?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Whow I live near here?
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Now?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Oh you live near here? Yes, will.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Well, I'll be seeing you. Yes, boy, that was sure
a red hot conversation.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I thought he looked familiar. Who is he Ben Rogers?
That's it, Ben Rogers. I met him at the club
dance last week.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Sure I remember.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Oh, I gotta tell mother.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
I'll bet you can hardly wait to hear that, mother.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Mother, Your mother's out in the kitchen. I wish you
wouldn't come busting into the house screaming like a bansheef.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Dog gone, dog gone, dog gone.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well, what's the matter with you? Sam?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Daddy?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
I go problems, haven't we?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
All? Which reminds me I've got a little matter I
want to take up with you.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
You know what, Daddy Mike is going to.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Who's Mike? Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
He's this new kid I've been playing with goes to
the military academy.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh go on, Well they're.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Having a party there tonight, the annual spring Frolic. Yes,
and Mike is going to it, and he has to
take a girl to it.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I think I'm beginning to see.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
And dog gone and I want to go with him,
but I can't because I'm a boy.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Now, well, you've got quite a problem there.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
All right, wait till I tell you the rest of it.
He doesn't know any girls around here, so he's asked
me to get him a date. I wish I was twins.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
No, I think one of you is plenty.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Hey, Daddy, maybe I could be twins.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
I'll get him a date with my twins sister. That's me.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I'm calling right now.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, not way, Kathy, Sam. We better think this over first.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
There's no kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Hello is Mike Rogers there?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Hello Mike, Sam? Yes, I did got one all lined
up for you. And boy is she a keen date
my twin sister. I know you didn't, but I got one.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
And boy is she pretty?
Speaker 5 (10:30):
You'll just love her.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Don't lay it on too heavy.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
She's got kind of short hair, but on her it
looks beautiful. Oh she gets an engraved invitation, Well, bring
it over right away. Yeah, it's long, Mike.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Boset in the kitchen is leaking again.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yippy out of my way, Mommy, I get work to do.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Yee, for heaven's sake. What's Sam up to now?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Margaret? You will be happy to know that Sam, at
this moment reconverting back to Kathy what she has just
gone upstairs to dress up in a dress.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
How in the world did you accomplish that?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I didn't. It was done by the oldest known device,
the greatest motivating force in the world.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Love, Just what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
A little boy named Mike has come into her life,
and he's taking her to a party. And furthermore, and furthermore,
there's someone at the front door. And I'll go back
and work on the faucet. Which one is it the
hot one? Again?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Yes, you'll find the washers in the bottom drawer.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Oh, it's love that makes the world go wrong. Yes,
it's love that Hello princess.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Hello, father, who is at the front door?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I don't know your mother answered it. Let's see now,
where are my wrenches?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Daddy coming? Mother? Who is at the door? Some little
boy and he brought this for you for me? Yes,
he said it was Sam's sister. Cute little boys.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Why it's an invitation to the spring frolic at the
Military Academy where from Cadet Rogers.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Is that the boy you were telling me about.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yes, that's his name.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Oh, isn't it wonderful? Mother?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
You've just gotta let me wear your pumps, the ones
with the real high heel.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Those won't be comfortable.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
But mother, if I don't wear them, I'll look utterly
puny alongside my date. He's so tall.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
We will return to the Andersons in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
So here's something for the girls.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Each of the Women's services, the Whack, the Waves, the Whiff,
the Women Marines, the Army, Navy and Air Force Nurse Corps,
and the Services Medical Specialist Corps all need volunteers. Get
full information that you're local recruiting office. Ah, there's good
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news in the Anderson household tonight. At least it seems
like good news, what with Kathy changing back into a
girl and preparing for her date with young cadet Mike Rodgers,
and with Betty madly dressing for what she thinks is
a date with cadet Glenn Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Right now, all efforts.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Are being turned toward trying to make the former Sam
Anderson look like a sweet, little feminine type girl like this.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Oh, this hair of yours, Kathy, it's so short. I
can't get hold of it to curl it or tie
a ribbon or anything.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
We'll do something to it.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Better get her awig.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Awe turned blue.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
I'll steal Kathy. I'll try again. Gee, I've just gotta
look like my twin sister.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
You look more like your twin brother.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Mother, mother, whatever it is, Betty, I haven't time to
help you now.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Were my good stockings?
Speaker 6 (14:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Aren't they there? Because I are the ones I want.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
There's an intelligent conversation.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I want the seamless one. Yes, those will be fine.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Stand still, Kathy, nobody makes sense around here?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Do parties affect everyone like this? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
How much do I get from mowing the lawn?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Today, there's one kid who's keeping his feet on the ground.
How much it seems to me your regular allowance ought
to cover that.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
I took an awful chance on getting blisters.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yes, you did, but if you were a heavy pair
of trousers, no one will notice them. A I'll tell
you what, though, I might boost your allowance up to
one Somolian this week. If you'll clean this other shoe
of Kathy's mother, Prince Charming will be along any minute.
(15:08):
We don't want our cinder la left holding the pumpkin.
That's another old proverb.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Okay, give it here.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Mother, Yes, Kathy stands still.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Oh you're pull my hair.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
That's the only way I can get hold of it. Mother.
Have you found my stocking? Where are they the sameless one?
Maybe they've been put somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I'd look there.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Anyone got a pencil. I'd like to preserve that dialogue
for posterity.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Kathy, for heaven's sake, stands still my knee.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Well, here's one shoe. Ready, raise your foot, sam Kathy.
I'll try to put it on the right rear foot.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Oh, mommy, you keep pulling my hair.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
I'm sorry, but I can't help it. This is like
trying to curl a nap on an old rug.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Hold your put steady, Katy, and push.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
I'm pushing, my gosh.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Are you sure these are your shoes?
Speaker 7 (16:17):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
We'll never get your feet into these unless we fold
your toes over.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Shall I stop cleaning the other one?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
No? No, those are the only party slippers she's got.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
All right, Katy, let's try this again. Hold your foot steady.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I'll breathe in.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, that'll help a lot. Here we go. Don't breathe
out too fast or you'll be barefooted again.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Mother.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Oh, here we go again.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Mother, Try looking in the linen closet. What are what
are you hunting for? I've already found them, This.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Is sure, And I wonder what they're talking about.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
What I want to know is can I wear your pumps?
I think they're in my closet. I've already got them on. Well,
there you are, Kathy. That's the best I can do.
Come on upstairs and we'll see what we can find
for a sash.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
I'm kind. Do you think I look enough like me
to be.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
My twin dad?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Are all girls dopey?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
No? Some of them have been known to have fairly
lucid moments. What's that noise?
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Oh that's Betty coming downstairs, and those stilts she's got on.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I hope she makes it. You need any help, Betty?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Of course not.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
How do I look?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Father?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Let me look at you? Don't move a muscle? M radiant,
absolutely radiant. What do you say, bud? Emm there? What
higher praise? Can you guess?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Oh? He doesn't know? Father? Do I look tall?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh? Yes, i'd say your door, bud.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Oh, no, I'll go, I'll go.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
It's probably him.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Don't trip on your way there?
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Hello, why don't you come? Huh? You do mean? Missus Anderson?
Missus Anderson? Who I'm Cadet Rogers, Cadet Rogers. You yes, ma'am.
And I'm calling for Sam's sister. Well, I'm Sam's sister.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
But you're SAMs sister.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I think there's been some mistake.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
You're rather big for your age, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Well? Yes, I am, I mean you wait here a minute.
I'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Father, mother, what's the matter, princess?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Oh, this is so humiliating.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
This is just awful, but awful.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
What's the matter? Aren't you tall enough?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Me?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Tall enough?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
You should see him? He's about two feet high.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
In that case, you better let him wear the high heels.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
This is not.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Funny, it's humiliating. He isn't the Cadet Rogers. I know,
he's just a little kid.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Oh well, that's probably Cathy.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
I wonder if Kathy had anything to do with this.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Kathy, correct already? How do I look?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Am I pretty? Look? Worm?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Are you pulling a fastie on me? Why there's a
little kid at the door posing as Cadet Rogers?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Is my heir, Mike?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Yeah, that's my day, Mike Rogers.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Oh no, but he asked for Sam's sister.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
That's me.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
He thinks I'm a boy, So I had to get
him a date with my twin sister.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Oh, and I got all dressed up for this.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Well, somebody better go to the door. You can't leave
the little fellow standing out there all night.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Gee, daddy, do I look all right?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Really like me?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Get to the door and find out.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Oh why was I born? What's all this moaning and
groaning about.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
It's a long and confusing story, Margaret, But sit down
and I'll tell it to you. Hurry up, Kathy, get going.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I'm scared.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
No, you're not no, hurry in there. You'd better tell
him you're sorry you kept him waiting so long, that is,
if he's still there.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Oh gone, Well, I say hello, I'm sorry I kept
you up so long, sir.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Why Sam?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
The idea of the funny outfit?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Funny outfit?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Boy? It had me fool for a minute.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
There.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Gosh, she even got your hair curled? Who did that? Sam? Whoa?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
This isn't funny.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I'm not Sam.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I'm a girl.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Boy. You dine here, look like one in that outfit? Sam,
I'm not Sam, I'm my sister.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Well, I'll tell you one thing, Sam, I'd rather take
you to the dance than that sister of yours.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
She's awful big for me.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
He Maybe a better tell her I suddenly got the
mumps or something and can't go.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
She's not the one you've got a date with. I'm
the one you Yes, sir, my name's Kathleen. Hey, Hey,
you know, maybe there's an idea. Hey do you think
we could get away with it?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Get away with what?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Nah?
Speaker 8 (22:03):
They never believe you were a girl, Sam, don't do that.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Don't cry, Sam, She whizz, Maybe you are a girl.
What's the trouble angel. Yes, Kathy, Kathy? Is that really
isn't he? Hernie? I'm all mixed up, missus Anderson. I'm
afraid all of us are a little mixed up tonight.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
He thinks I'm still Sam.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Well you're not, and never were and never will be. Well,
I'll be dog gone you you're fool me. Hey, my,
come on, let's get going. Who's that?
Speaker 8 (22:49):
Well, that's my brother. He's leaiting out in the car.
He's gonna drive us out there. Come on, okay, just
a minute.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
What's going on here? Anyway?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
We're getting it all straightened out, no matter.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
With you kitting. You don't sound like you're on your
way to a spring frolic.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
Yeah, come on, Sam or Kathy, we better get going
before my brother blows his top.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
You don't want to take me? Sure?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I do? No?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
You don't you think I look like a boy?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
No?
Speaker 8 (23:17):
I don't, honest, it was just when I thought you
were sanded.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
I mean, well, look different now you.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Look real well like a real female girl, do I Mike?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Yes, sir, and boy.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
There's not many of them that can slide in a
second like you either.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Oh Mike, you're sweet, my gosh, haven't you kids gone.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yet they're both pretty far going right now at the.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Moment here, Kathy, let me wipe away those tears and
you'll be all. You don't want to go to the
party with your eyes already? Hey my, come on? Oh
excuse me?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Why Glenn?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Oh hello, hello? I uh, I was just waiting for
my kid brother. How are you your brother?
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Oh excuse me, Glenn. This is my mother and father,
Cadet Rogers. He goes to the academy too.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
How do you do?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
How do you do?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Are we glad to meet another Cadet Rogers?
Speaker 5 (24:30):
There you are, Kathy, You look much better now. Gee, Betty,
you sure look pretty tonight.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I'll dressed up well?
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Say you weren't planning to take the kids to the
dance tonight?
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Were you will?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
As a matter of fact, I had considered it. But
as long as you're taking.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
Them, oh no, no, I don't want to upset your plans.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
And maybe we could do well, you know, sort of
go together.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Well, I guess it could be arranged.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Swell, come on, we've been a good going we're late now.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Yeah, come on sam a, Kathy, goodbye Mommy and daddy.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Goodbye, Darling.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I have a good time, kitten. Oh myle mile man.
It was a rough fight, but we finally won.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
But Kathy did look pretty, didn't she.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
She certainly did. Oh, here's her old blue jeans on
the stairs. I guess we can throw these away now.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Huh oh, No, don't throw them away. I want to
put those with our family treasures. Put the note on them,
a note yes, goodbye, Sam.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
The Andersons will return in a moment. Opportunity unlimited. That's
the future for young women unmarried between the ages of
eighteen and thirty four. In our nation's armed forces, seventy
two thousand enlisted women and officers are needed immediately for
important assignments at home and abroad. Women with college degrees
or the equivalent may qualify for officers commissions. Registered nurses
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and qualified medical specialists are eligible for commission and are
desperately needed. Go to your local recruiting office tomorrow. Well,
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the turmoil and confusion to preparing a pair of daughters
for a spring frolic has finally died down in the
white frame house on Maple Street, and a brace of
weary parents settle themselves in the most comfortable chairs in
the living room for a little quiet reading like this.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Ah feels good to sit down.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I hope the girls will have a good time tonight.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Just so Kathy remembers to dance with her partners instead
of offering to wrestle them two out of three falls.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
I think she's learned her lesson.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
You know, I was just thinking, I believe girls are
more trouble to raise than boys. Thank Bud, for instance,
he just goes along stolidly, never making much fuss about anything,
perfectly satisfied with his lot in life.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Hey Mom, Yes, what is it, Bud? Mom?
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Can I have this old dress of Betty's?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Oh no, what in the.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
World do you want to wear that for?
Speaker 7 (27:44):
I don't want to wear it. I'm cleaning my motor
scooter and I need some old rags.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Oh by all means take it some take it.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Call us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
In our cast were Rhoda Williams says.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Betty, Jean Vander Pyle, Orma, Jean Nilson, Ted Donaldson, Tommy Bernard,
Jeff Silver.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
And Bill Foreman.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Don Stanley speaking Father Knows Best, directed by Andrew C.
Love was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Paul West
and Roswell Rogers.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
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Speaker 1 (29:16):
Now it's night Beat on NBC
Now listen to Father Knows Best.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Transcribe sorrying Robert Young as father, welcome to spring here
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and another half hour visit with the folks in the white.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Frame House on Maple Street.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Sit back and enjoy live for the Andersons Kathy, Bud, Betty,
Margaret and Jim.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
As the head of.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
This typical American household again sets out to prove that
father knows Best. The White Frame House on Maple Street
underwent a fairly unique change in sameel last week when
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it's youngest member, Kathy Anderson, threw off the shackles of
girldom and became, as far as she was concerned, a boy.
All efforts to reconvert her have failed, and now the
family is beginning to accept her as saying as is
evidenced by this Saturday morning phone call like this.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I'll get it.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Hello. Who oh just a minute, Hey, Sam, it's for you.
How old Faddy?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I'm coming?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Hello?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Oh Hi, Mike, Okay, Mike be right over, Mike, Bye?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Who's this Mike?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Does he go to your school?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Heck no, he goes to the military academy. Really sure,
I'm gonna go there too. You you can't go there?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Mike gave him my name an address, and they're gonna
send me an application.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Doesn't Mike know you're a girl.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I'm not a girl anymore. And don't you ever tell
Mike I am one? Where's Mommy?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Last time I saw her? So he was in the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Hey, mommy, I'm going over to Mike's house.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
You can't go anywhere looking like that. Wait a minute,
have you been cutting your hair again?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
No, honest, I haven't.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Honest, I swear it looks shorter every time I see you.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Where's my baseball?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Black?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I see it? I see it now, Kathy? You did? Mom?
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Could you make me some lemonade? Bud?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
You're supposed to be out mowing the lawn.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Well I was, but I got worried about a blister.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Oh really, Yeah, if a blister breaks and you get
dirt in it, do you get infected?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Well, you certainly could. Let's see where it broke.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Oh it didn't break.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Oh, well, let's see the blister.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Oh I haven't got a blister yet.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Well, for goodness sake, what's all the fuss about. Then?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Well, I just thought i'd better quit while I still
had my health.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Oh, Bud, one time Claude Messner had a blister.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
I don't want to hear about it in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Now, Bud mail man, letter for the President of the PTA.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Where are your president.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
In the kitchen scrubbing the floor?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
You should get the vice president to do that? Bud?
What are you doing in here? Is this the way
you mow the lawn? Well?
Speaker 7 (03:30):
I was just telling mom about the time Claude Messner
had a blister on his foot.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I'm sorry I missed that. I'll bet it was fascinating.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Well, what happened?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I don't want to hear it. Get out there and
put a few blisters on that lawn more. Hurry, Now
I'm going, I'm going.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Where's my letter?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Oh? Here it is? Oh, oh, look at this?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
A postcard for Sam Anderson, O dear from the Ajax
Power Tool Company. She's certainly going in whole hog for
this boy business. Well, for goodness sakes, Margaret, did you
know about this? About what this letter? It's from the
Springfield Military Academy. Did Bud mention anything about this to you?
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Jim, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
It's an application from them, It says our son Master
Anderson requested it. Now, why would Bud want to go
to a military school without consulting us?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
It is strange.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You suppose something has gone wrong at school.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
He certainly hasn't mentioned it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
If it has, maybe he feels we push him too hard,
expect too much work out of him.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Oh, heaven's the little bit of work he does around here.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I'd better go out and have a talk with him,
get to the bottom of this thing.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Well, it's certainly not like Bud.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
At all, Bud.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
I'm going to start mowing right now, Dad, But.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Never mind that. Now, if you feel it's too hard
or anything like that, just let it go.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Would you repeat that?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I said let it go. The grass will keep. Let's
sit down here, Bud and have a little talk. We
haven't had a good man the man chat for quite
a while. Well, come on, sit down.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
I'll mold a lawn.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
No, I don't want you to sit down now. Listen, Bud.
The only way I can help you is for you
to tell me just what the trouble is. The trouble,
just what is this gnawing you feel inside of you? Gning? Yes,
what's causing it?
Speaker 6 (05:46):
I guess I'm just hungry.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
No, Bud, I mean, well, look, it's no good keeping
these things penned up inside of you. Get things out
in the open, makes them much simpler. Now, this inner
turmoil of yours? What's bringing it on? Well?
Speaker 7 (06:08):
The only time I notice it is right after I
eat deal pickles.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Oh look, Bud, I don't like him anyway, Jim.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Don't bother us now, Margaret, But I.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Have some important evidence to throw into this case, your honor.
If you'd bothered to read the rest of this letter,
you'd have found out it has nothing to do with Bud.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
What letter?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
It deals with our other son, Sam.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
What what are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Oh? It's an application blank from the Springfield Military Academy.
Evidently Kathy is trying to enroll there.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Kaffy's Well, I'll be switched. Bud. Where are you going
over to Joe Phillips?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
You said I didn't have to mow the lawn.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Just forget what I said and get on that law
and get on it fast.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Holy cal.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Hurry, I'm doing it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Take it around and do the front law, and that
needs it worse for this?
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Okay, Okay, why don't they make up their minds?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Drive a guy crazy?
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Well, look at you, boy, Some people sure have it, sawt.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
What are you grumbling about? Grumpy?
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Sit on the porch and swing while your brother's working
his head to the bone.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Hey, Bud, look who's that soldier coming down the street?
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Huh where? Oh, he's not a soldier. He goes to
the military academy.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Gee, he's good looking and so tall.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
That's where Kathy wants to go.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
I don't blame her. I'd like to go there myself.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Want me to go out and tackle him.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Bud, stop it and don't act like we're staring at him.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Well, hello there, Betty, Well, Hello, you live here? Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I live here?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Whow I live near here?
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Now?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Oh you live near here? Yes, will.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Well, I'll be seeing you. Yes, boy, that was sure
a red hot conversation.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I thought he looked familiar. Who is he Ben Rogers?
That's it, Ben Rogers. I met him at the club
dance last week.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Sure I remember.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Oh, I gotta tell mother.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
I'll bet you can hardly wait to hear that, mother.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Mother, Your mother's out in the kitchen. I wish you
wouldn't come busting into the house screaming like a bansheef.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Dog gone, dog gone, dog gone.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well, what's the matter with you? Sam?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Daddy?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
I go problems, haven't we?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
All? Which reminds me I've got a little matter I
want to take up with you.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
You know what, Daddy Mike is going to.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Who's Mike? Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
He's this new kid I've been playing with goes to
the military academy.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh go on, Well they're.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Having a party there tonight, the annual spring Frolic. Yes,
and Mike is going to it, and he has to
take a girl to it.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I think I'm beginning to see.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
And dog gone and I want to go with him,
but I can't because I'm a boy.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Now, well, you've got quite a problem there.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
All right, wait till I tell you the rest of it.
He doesn't know any girls around here, so he's asked
me to get him a date. I wish I was twins.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
No, I think one of you is plenty.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Hey, Daddy, maybe I could be twins.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
I'll get him a date with my twins sister. That's me.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I'm calling right now.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, not way, Kathy, Sam. We better think this over first.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
There's no kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Hello is Mike Rogers there?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Hello Mike, Sam? Yes, I did got one all lined
up for you. And boy is she a keen date
my twin sister. I know you didn't, but I got one.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
And boy is she pretty?
Speaker 5 (10:30):
You'll just love her.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Don't lay it on too heavy.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
She's got kind of short hair, but on her it
looks beautiful. Oh she gets an engraved invitation, Well, bring
it over right away. Yeah, it's long, Mike.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Boset in the kitchen is leaking again.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yippy out of my way, Mommy, I get work to do.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Yee, for heaven's sake. What's Sam up to now?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Margaret? You will be happy to know that Sam, at
this moment reconverting back to Kathy what she has just
gone upstairs to dress up in a dress.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
How in the world did you accomplish that?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I didn't. It was done by the oldest known device,
the greatest motivating force in the world.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Love, Just what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
A little boy named Mike has come into her life,
and he's taking her to a party. And furthermore, and furthermore,
there's someone at the front door. And I'll go back
and work on the faucet. Which one is it the
hot one? Again?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Yes, you'll find the washers in the bottom drawer.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Oh, it's love that makes the world go wrong. Yes,
it's love that Hello princess.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Hello, father, who is at the front door?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I don't know your mother answered it. Let's see now,
where are my wrenches?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Daddy coming? Mother? Who is at the door? Some little
boy and he brought this for you for me? Yes,
he said it was Sam's sister. Cute little boys.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Why it's an invitation to the spring frolic at the
Military Academy where from Cadet Rogers.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Is that the boy you were telling me about.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yes, that's his name.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Oh, isn't it wonderful? Mother?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
You've just gotta let me wear your pumps, the ones
with the real high heel.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Those won't be comfortable.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
But mother, if I don't wear them, I'll look utterly
puny alongside my date. He's so tall.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
We will return to the Andersons in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
So here's something for the girls.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Each of the Women's services, the Whack, the Waves, the Whiff,
the Women Marines, the Army, Navy and Air Force Nurse Corps,
and the Services Medical Specialist Corps all need volunteers. Get
full information that you're local recruiting office. Ah, there's good
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news in the Anderson household tonight. At least it seems
like good news, what with Kathy changing back into a
girl and preparing for her date with young cadet Mike Rodgers,
and with Betty madly dressing for what she thinks is
a date with cadet Glenn Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Right now, all efforts.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Are being turned toward trying to make the former Sam
Anderson look like a sweet, little feminine type girl like this.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Oh, this hair of yours, Kathy, it's so short. I
can't get hold of it to curl it or tie
a ribbon or anything.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
We'll do something to it.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Better get her awig.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Awe turned blue.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
I'll steal Kathy. I'll try again. Gee, I've just gotta
look like my twin sister.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
You look more like your twin brother.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Mother, mother, whatever it is, Betty, I haven't time to
help you now.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Were my good stockings?
Speaker 6 (14:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Aren't they there? Because I are the ones I want.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
There's an intelligent conversation.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I want the seamless one. Yes, those will be fine.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Stand still, Kathy, nobody makes sense around here?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Do parties affect everyone like this? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
How much do I get from mowing the lawn?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Today, there's one kid who's keeping his feet on the ground.
How much it seems to me your regular allowance ought
to cover that.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
I took an awful chance on getting blisters.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yes, you did, but if you were a heavy pair
of trousers, no one will notice them. A I'll tell
you what, though, I might boost your allowance up to
one Somolian this week. If you'll clean this other shoe
of Kathy's mother, Prince Charming will be along any minute.
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We don't want our cinder la left holding the pumpkin.
That's another old proverb.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Okay, give it here.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Mother, Yes, Kathy stands still.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Oh you're pull my hair.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
That's the only way I can get hold of it. Mother.
Have you found my stocking? Where are they the sameless one?
Maybe they've been put somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I'd look there.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Anyone got a pencil. I'd like to preserve that dialogue
for posterity.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Kathy, for heaven's sake, stands still my knee.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Well, here's one shoe. Ready, raise your foot, sam Kathy.
I'll try to put it on the right rear foot.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Oh, mommy, you keep pulling my hair.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
I'm sorry, but I can't help it. This is like
trying to curl a nap on an old rug.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Hold your put steady, Katy, and push.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
I'm pushing, my gosh.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Are you sure these are your shoes?
Speaker 7 (16:17):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
We'll never get your feet into these unless we fold
your toes over.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Shall I stop cleaning the other one?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
No? No, those are the only party slippers she's got.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
All right, Katy, let's try this again. Hold your foot steady.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I'll breathe in.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, that'll help a lot. Here we go. Don't breathe
out too fast or you'll be barefooted again.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Mother.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Oh, here we go again.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Mother, Try looking in the linen closet. What are what
are you hunting for? I've already found them, This.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Is sure, And I wonder what they're talking about.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
What I want to know is can I wear your pumps?
I think they're in my closet. I've already got them on. Well,
there you are, Kathy. That's the best I can do.
Come on upstairs and we'll see what we can find
for a sash.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
I'm kind. Do you think I look enough like me
to be.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
My twin dad?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Are all girls dopey?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
No? Some of them have been known to have fairly
lucid moments. What's that noise?
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Oh that's Betty coming downstairs, and those stilts she's got on.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I hope she makes it. You need any help, Betty?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Of course not.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
How do I look?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Father?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Let me look at you? Don't move a muscle? M radiant,
absolutely radiant. What do you say, bud? Emm there? What
higher praise? Can you guess?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Oh? He doesn't know? Father? Do I look tall?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh? Yes, i'd say your door, bud.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Oh, no, I'll go, I'll go.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
It's probably him.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Don't trip on your way there?
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Hello, why don't you come? Huh? You do mean? Missus Anderson?
Missus Anderson? Who I'm Cadet Rogers, Cadet Rogers. You yes, ma'am.
And I'm calling for Sam's sister. Well, I'm Sam's sister.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
But you're SAMs sister.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I think there's been some mistake.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
You're rather big for your age, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Well? Yes, I am, I mean you wait here a minute.
I'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Father, mother, what's the matter, princess?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Oh, this is so humiliating.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
This is just awful, but awful.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
What's the matter? Aren't you tall enough?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Me?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Tall enough?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
You should see him? He's about two feet high.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
In that case, you better let him wear the high heels.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
This is not.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Funny, it's humiliating. He isn't the Cadet Rogers. I know,
he's just a little kid.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Oh well, that's probably Cathy.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
I wonder if Kathy had anything to do with this.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Kathy, correct already? How do I look?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Am I pretty? Look? Worm?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Are you pulling a fastie on me? Why there's a
little kid at the door posing as Cadet Rogers?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Is my heir, Mike?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Yeah, that's my day, Mike Rogers.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Oh no, but he asked for Sam's sister.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
That's me.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
He thinks I'm a boy, So I had to get
him a date with my twin sister.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Oh, and I got all dressed up for this.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Well, somebody better go to the door. You can't leave
the little fellow standing out there all night.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Gee, daddy, do I look all right?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Really like me?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Get to the door and find out.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Oh why was I born? What's all this moaning and
groaning about.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
It's a long and confusing story, Margaret, But sit down
and I'll tell it to you. Hurry up, Kathy, get going.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I'm scared.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
No, you're not no, hurry in there. You'd better tell
him you're sorry you kept him waiting so long, that is,
if he's still there.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Oh gone, Well, I say hello, I'm sorry I kept
you up so long, sir.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Why Sam?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
The idea of the funny outfit?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Funny outfit?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Boy? It had me fool for a minute.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
There.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Gosh, she even got your hair curled? Who did that? Sam? Whoa?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
This isn't funny.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I'm not Sam.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I'm a girl.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Boy. You dine here, look like one in that outfit? Sam,
I'm not Sam, I'm my sister.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Well, I'll tell you one thing, Sam, I'd rather take
you to the dance than that sister of yours.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
She's awful big for me.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
He Maybe a better tell her I suddenly got the
mumps or something and can't go.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
She's not the one you've got a date with. I'm
the one you Yes, sir, my name's Kathleen. Hey, Hey,
you know, maybe there's an idea. Hey do you think
we could get away with it?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Get away with what?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Nah?
Speaker 8 (22:03):
They never believe you were a girl, Sam, don't do that.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Don't cry, Sam, She whizz, Maybe you are a girl.
What's the trouble angel. Yes, Kathy, Kathy? Is that really
isn't he? Hernie? I'm all mixed up, missus Anderson. I'm
afraid all of us are a little mixed up tonight.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
He thinks I'm still Sam.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Well you're not, and never were and never will be. Well,
I'll be dog gone you you're fool me. Hey, my,
come on, let's get going. Who's that?
Speaker 8 (22:49):
Well, that's my brother. He's leaiting out in the car.
He's gonna drive us out there. Come on, okay, just
a minute.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
What's going on here? Anyway?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
We're getting it all straightened out, no matter.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
With you kitting. You don't sound like you're on your
way to a spring frolic.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
Yeah, come on, Sam or Kathy, we better get going
before my brother blows his top.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
You don't want to take me? Sure?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I do? No?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
You don't you think I look like a boy?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
No?
Speaker 8 (23:17):
I don't, honest, it was just when I thought you
were sanded.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
I mean, well, look different now you.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Look real well like a real female girl, do I Mike?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Yes, sir, and boy.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
There's not many of them that can slide in a
second like you either.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Oh Mike, you're sweet, my gosh, haven't you kids gone.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yet they're both pretty far going right now at the.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Moment here, Kathy, let me wipe away those tears and
you'll be all. You don't want to go to the
party with your eyes already? Hey my, come on? Oh
excuse me?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Why Glenn?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Oh hello, hello? I uh, I was just waiting for
my kid brother. How are you your brother?
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Oh excuse me, Glenn. This is my mother and father,
Cadet Rogers. He goes to the academy too.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
How do you do?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
How do you do?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Are we glad to meet another Cadet Rogers?
Speaker 5 (24:30):
There you are, Kathy, You look much better now. Gee, Betty,
you sure look pretty tonight.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I'll dressed up well?
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Say you weren't planning to take the kids to the
dance tonight?
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Were you will?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
As a matter of fact, I had considered it. But
as long as you're taking.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
Them, oh no, no, I don't want to upset your plans.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
And maybe we could do well, you know, sort of
go together.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Well, I guess it could be arranged.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Swell, come on, we've been a good going we're late now.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Yeah, come on sam a, Kathy, goodbye Mommy and daddy.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Goodbye, Darling.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I have a good time, kitten. Oh myle mile man.
It was a rough fight, but we finally won.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
But Kathy did look pretty, didn't she.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
She certainly did. Oh, here's her old blue jeans on
the stairs. I guess we can throw these away now.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Huh oh, No, don't throw them away. I want to
put those with our family treasures. Put the note on them,
a note yes, goodbye, Sam.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
The Andersons will return in a moment. Opportunity unlimited. That's
the future for young women unmarried between the ages of
eighteen and thirty four. In our nation's armed forces, seventy
two thousand enlisted women and officers are needed immediately for
important assignments at home and abroad. Women with college degrees
or the equivalent may qualify for officers commissions. Registered nurses
(26:22):
and qualified medical specialists are eligible for commission and are
desperately needed. Go to your local recruiting office tomorrow. Well,
(26:43):
the turmoil and confusion to preparing a pair of daughters
for a spring frolic has finally died down in the
white frame house on Maple Street, and a brace of
weary parents settle themselves in the most comfortable chairs in
the living room for a little quiet reading like this.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Ah feels good to sit down.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I hope the girls will have a good time tonight.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Just so Kathy remembers to dance with her partners instead
of offering to wrestle them two out of three falls.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
I think she's learned her lesson.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
You know, I was just thinking, I believe girls are
more trouble to raise than boys. Thank Bud, for instance,
he just goes along stolidly, never making much fuss about anything,
perfectly satisfied with his lot in life.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Hey Mom, Yes, what is it, Bud? Mom?
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Can I have this old dress of Betty's?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Oh no, what in the.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
World do you want to wear that for?
Speaker 7 (27:44):
I don't want to wear it. I'm cleaning my motor
scooter and I need some old rags.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Oh by all means take it some take it.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Call us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
In our cast were Rhoda Williams says.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Betty, Jean Vander Pyle, Orma, Jean Nilson, Ted Donaldson, Tommy Bernard,
Jeff Silver.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
And Bill Foreman.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Don Stanley speaking Father Knows Best, directed by Andrew C.
Love was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Paul West
and Roswell Rogers.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Three Times mean Good Times on NBC.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Friday Night is your night to howell to how with laughter.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
That is when you're tuned for Bob and Ray, the
top satirists on the air today. Yes, Bob and Ray
is another great Friday Night program in the NBC line up,
which also includes The Mario Lanza Show and The Roy
Rogers Show. So keep your date with entertaining radio listening
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the NBC Radio network.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
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